DMBM557650 - Debt and return pursuit: Child Benefit overpayments: customer in receipt of a DWP benefit - terminated entitlement
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DWP benefit check
If you have been unable to contact a customer during the normal recovery process you should check ADD to see if any DWP benefits are in payment.
If you establish that a customer is receiving one of the following long-term benefits:
- DLA (Disability Living Allowance)
- ICA (Invalid Care Allowance)
- AA (Attendance Allowance)
- INCAP (Incapacity Benefit)
- Income Support RP (Retirement Pension with pension credits)
- IVB (Invalidity Benefit)
- ESA (Employment Support Allowance)
- JSA (income-based Job Seeker's Allowance)
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JSA(C) (JSA contributory)
If the customer is receiving JSA(C) which is likely to be short-term consider suspension and a review period.
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Customer refuses to pay
If the customer refuses to pay or co-operate with completion of an Income and Expenditure form:
- issue letter CBOP190 with an EF3 (or EF4 for Scotland)
- set OPREC BF delayed code 1, BF Code 15 for five years
- update the OPREC notepad.
No reply or further refusal to pay
If there is no reply to the pre-enforcement letter or there is a further refusal to pay you should proceed as follows:
- there is evidence that enforcement action would be potentially successful, consider referral for enforcement
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